The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-03-09

Mrs. Becker, of Cincinnati, has been
sentenced to two years in the Dayton Ohio
Penitentiary for fraudulently obtaining a
pension
Lucky Baldwin has offered to match
volante against Montana Regent for from
$1,000 to $50, 600 on any course Offering the
most money
Joseph w. Bingham, well-known
journalist, committed suicide at Indianapolis
by cutting his throat with a razor. His health
had been poor for some time.
Joseph Donaldson, farmer, living
near Galena, Ill carved his wife and child
some days ago, and was twice prevented from
hanging himself. AT last he procured gal
lon of whisky, retired to a secluded spot,
and drank himself into the next world
The Secretary of State is in receipt of
a dispatch from Uruguay announcing that chol-
era has been declared epidemic at Montevideo.
The President has pardoned n. 81.
Camp, for embezzlement; He Ling and Le
Lung, of Arkansas, for violating the internal
revenue laws; j. w. Allen, violating the postal
laws; Joseph II. Evans convicted OF polyg
spiracy to cast away a vessel on the high seas.
Recent deaths Mrs. Jane Washing
ton Thornton Beck, wife of Senator Beck, OF
Kentucky, died at her residence in Washing
ton last week, the result of a cold contracted
while out riding i'll an open carriage. The re-
mains were taken to Lexington, KY,
for interment Mrs. Beck was born
in Auburn, Va, October 8, 1885,
and was the grandniece and nearest living de-
scendant of George Washington She married
Senator Beck in Lexington, Ky, Feb 3, 1913
cable dispatch announces the death of Mr..
g. Harris Heap, the United States Consul Gen.
eral at Constantnople Commodore L. p.
Lull, of the United States navy, died at
the Pensacola naval station. William
Coke, one of the seven men who organized
the Knights of Labor passed away at Phlll-
dephia, aged 63 years. Tracy Titus, the
well-known theatrical manager AMI hns-
band of the late Alice Oates, died near
Los Angeles, Cal Mrs Ruth H.
Harmon, mother of Mrs. Folsom, and
grandmother of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, ex-
pired at Jackson, Mich, where she had been
living for the last ten years with her son, NJ
Harmon. She was born in 1919, and was
married in 1855 Lieut. Col K n Scott, chief
of the publicat on Office of war records, died at
Washington Charles J. Peterson, author and
publisher, died in Philadelphia.
King Oscar dissolved the Swedish
Parliaui mt for refusing to vote the Inmates
asked by the government
An explosion in a Belgian colliery
suffocatel IA person.
The rumor that China has given
Germany the Chusln Islands has again started
the whole fever of French disc1nt mt about
the colonial scheme.
The position of Austria in the event
of war il at present rather uncer,aln, bu. it
looks extremely likely that she may decide to
take the sunny side of the road and Affect to
discover that, after all, no Austrian interests
would be prejudicsd by Russian occupation
of Bulgaria.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has resigned
the Office of Chief Secretary for Ireland on
account o. continued trouble with his eyes, and
Arthur J. Balfour, Secretary of State for
Scotland, has been appointed IN his
place. The retiring Secretary goes to
Berlin for treatment The Marquis of Sails
bury regards the change as dsast,r TO
the country, and, speaking on the Irish ques-
ton, said what was needed was the re storing
of the law machine so that juries would act
The question was not national one, for while
the agitators in England demanded freedom,
in their own country they preached the heroic
gospel of how debtors could escape paying
creditors. The struggle on the part of England
was for the existence Of the empire, and
would succeed